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FS#3187 - pacman PKGBUILD should make a backup of the community file

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Victor (Victor) - Sunday, 18 September 2005, 15:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When you upgrade the pacman package, the /etc/pacman.d/community file is overwritten without making a community.pacsave backup.

PKGBUILD should look like:
[...]
backup=('etc/pacman.conf' 'etc/makepkg.conf' 'etc/abs/abs.conf' \
etc/pacman.d/{current,release,extra,unstable,community})
[...]
This task depends upon

Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Sunday, 02 October 2005, 17:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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